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By CKPG Today

Impaired stats

BC Highway Patrol takes 267 impaired drivers off the road in December

Jan 16, 2025 | 2:29 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — Impaired drivers kept BC Highway Patrol busy over the holiday season.

So busy that they took an average of 8.61 impaired drivers off the road every day in December. That’s an impaired driver caught every three hours for 31 days.

“The Winter Impaired Driving Campaign clearly shows that education is not enough for people who choose to drive while impaired,” says Superintendent Mike Coyle, Acting Officer in Charge of BC Highway Patrol.

Here are the December 2024 prohibitions in BC Highway Patrol’s five regions:

1. North (100 Mile House and north, excluding Clearwater); 52 prohibitions.
2. South East Central (including Vernon, Kelowna, Kamloops and Clearwater); 81 prohibitions.
3. Lower Mainland (including Pemberton to Hope); 45 prohibitions.
4. South East Kootenay (including Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, Grand Forks, east to Alberta); 36 prohibitions.
5. Vancouver Island; 53 prohibitions.

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The annual Winter Impaired Driving Campaign is a province-wide initiative in support of National Impaired Driving Prevention Month that features enhanced enforcement through check stops and patrols.